The Impact Of Music Characteristic On Emotional Responses Of Undergraduate Students

Music is the language of the human soul.Its nature lies in that it could convey our feelings deep inside.The impact of music on psychology is realized mainly by means of affecting the mood.This study is based on previous researches and discusses the impact of music characteristic on emotional responses of undergraduate students,aiming at applying musical therapy to colleges and universities to provide basis and references for psychological counseling and treatment to undergraduates.The study is divided into two sub-studies as follows:Study 1 take the eliciting effect of music on emotion as the breakthrough point, to test the relationship between the music characteristic and the undergraduates'emotional responses.Study 2 is a laboratory study.First,induces the positive emotion or the negative emotion of the participants by using video.Then,divide the positive group and the negative group into groups individually. Each group listens to different music to test the impact of music on the participants'emotion who at the specific emotional conditions,to discuss the moderating effect of music on emotion.In study 2,collect the participants'emotion experiences and the physiologic reactivity.The findings are as following:1. Regardless of that the music is classical or non-classical,that the timbre is instrumental or vocal and that the combination level of the music types and the timbre,the rhythm of music affects the undergraduates'emotion significantly.Stimulative music tends to elicit undergraduates'positive emotion and sedative music tends to elicit negative emotion.2. The timbre shows no significant influence on undergraduates'emotion.3. The participants of different gender or major have no significant differences on music emotion.4. The participants at positive emotion,regardless of listening to the music or meditating,the physiologic reactivity tend to calm down,and the sedative music shows a better effect.While listening to sedative music tends to elicit participants'negative emotion.5. Regardless of listening to the stimulative music,listening to the sedative music or meditating,the three types of treatment are all effective in adjusting negative emotion.The best of them is stimulative music,the secondary is sedative music and meditation is the worst one.6. Different types of emotional experience changes correspond completely differently to physiologic reactivity.Take the increasing of the emotional experience intensity for example, as the participants'positive emotional experience is getting stronger,the PPG decreases,the ECG R-R interval increases and the heart rate decreases.And as the participants'negative emotional experience is getting stronger,the PPG increases,the ECG R-R interval decreases and the heart rate increases.